Author Information: Penny Sumner

Penny Sumner is an Australian who came to England as a postgraduate student. She did a D.Phil. at Oxford and now lives in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, where she teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at the University of Northumbria. Her first publication was a short story in Reader, I Murdered Him. Another short story, Dead Head, which appeared in Reader, I Murdered Him, Too was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Short Story Dagger Award. She has one son.